Any child, or anyone who saw the director's cut of Aliens and dreamed of owning one of those automated sentries.
Aliens was such a hardware movie - I wanted everything in it. Any movie that features Sigorney Weaver as a gun toting rambo with PMS also must be good.
I can't help it, but this somehow reads like fake id emerged by natural selection.
It's a rich ecosystem. Beer coasters that advertise beer to put in a glass on top of the coaster, glasses that smash into tiny non-cutting pieces, carpet that is patterned to hide vomit and crappy matchbooks are all part of the rich cycle of life.
Are people not taught common sense and critical thinking skills?
No, they are not. In fact, it is almost impossible to find any form of educational institution where such things are taught.
What is taught, is rote learning. People are not taught to think, they are taught to obey. They are not taught to question, they are taught to accept what they are told.
If you would like a practical experiment in testing this theory, try this: ask any person, it doesn't matter who, to point out the flaws in democracy. Most people are so well trained to believe that democracy is the best system ever invented that they are likely to chase you down the streets with pitchforks screaming "terrorist" or "unamerican" rather than answer the question.
Sex != procreation. I don't think too many guys go to clubs with the goal of getting a woman pregnant:-)
And that, is of course why beer evolved. Natural selection causes drunk men to get together with drunk women and make offspring that are predisposed to do the same thing as soon as they can get fake id. The beer has a symbotic relationship with the human species (specifically, the drunk humper sub-species) and is perfectly adapted to it's environmental niche.
But there is a significant proportion of the population whose world is not ruled by that same empiricism. For those people, it's more important to follow the appropriate leader than to be right.
Having read this comment after the results of both domestic (Australian) and American elections I'm inclined to agree.
People drink from the Ganges everyday (and I challenge anyone to find a more festering river of cess anywhere). If the only clean water you could get was recycled, would you really care where it came from?
I live in Australia, and we have water quality in our sewers that beats the drinking water in many parts of the world. All that water ends up either out at sea, or flooding paddocks after secondary treatment. We currently have water restrictions here. I think that we would have less of a problem if we stopped throwing away perfectly good water. It's just stupid not to recycle it.
Absolutely no child, healthy or sick, should be deprived of the sheer joy that is Play-Doh. It's colorful, malleable, non-toxic, and even smells funny. Best of all, it comes with no instructions, flashing lights, or piezoelectronic voices - you have to make all those things up as you go along.
Is that the perfect toy or what?
Coupled with the fact that you can make a reasonable rip-off with flour, water and food colouring for next to nothing. Bonus points for using cornflour and water to demonstrate dilatancy, ie. make your own silly putty.
Hmm, I think they better pull this promotion, some people are having big reality problems here. Or maybe I'm not as familiar with Australian fauna as I thought I was....
Great, we've already got stupid Americans thinking that kangaroos are jumping down every street here, now we're going to have to break the news to them that there aren't dragons flapping about either.
Quite a number of bars in Europe already do this as a so-called 'VIP-treatment'; get an RFID implanted to pay for your drinks/entry (as in you get debited later on your bank account).
Of course, if you are a real VIP, you don't need an RFID tag. You really think VIPs pay for their own drinks?
I recall reading sometime ago that US Navy studies for crewing submarines showed women coped much better will prolonged living in confined quarters than men do and an all female submarine crew would probably have higher moral than an all male crew.
Yeah but you'd be able to pinpoint the sub underwater by the strength of the sound of bitching and backstabbing emanating from the hull.
Men just try to kill each other under stress, women let the venom for each other ripen in the cauldron of their black, black hearts - that poison never goes away.
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Can the editors please institute a policy that they only accept/post stories that are adequately descriptive?
This would be the total reverse of what happens presently. I wouldn't hold your breath.
Farmer:
1) Dont buy X's seed
2) Buy compeditors seed (GM or not)
2) ???
3) no profit for X
4) Profit (for compeditor)
You left out the fact that farmers who don't buy the seed get either:
a) raped in court when the GM crop is 'accidently' found to be growing on their land.
b) get their crops contaminated by GM thereby closing off several markets to them and negating the advantage they had not growing GM.
c) Who do you think the competitors to Monsanto are? That's right, DuPont and Bayer Crop Sciences. Guess which competitor is pushing conventional crops? If you answered 'no one' you win the prize!
Where is the choice not to grow GM? GM has clearly been rejected by consumers, why should farmers be forced into growing something that is harder to sell, just to make greedy companies richer?
Monsanto, DuPont and Bayer Crop Science are like the unholy trinity. Their business practices are beyond stupid, they are evil.
"Let's make GM crops that can withstand twenty times the dose of our herbicide, and let's make those crops sensitive to the competitor's herbicide. And how 'bout we make the crops sterile so that the farmers have to buy from us year after year."
The problem I have with GM is that it is contra to evolution. If the world worked better with jellyfish mating with wheat, then that is what would happen.
People have spend too much time trying to get rid of supposed 'defects' which can turn out to be strengths in other circumstances. Mainstream agriculture is the perfect example of what *not* to do, GM will be orders of magnitude greater than that. Variety gives rise to strength, similiarity to weakness.
What else are people doing with hops other than make beer?
Put some hops in a little pillow and sleep on it for a solid night's sleep. Hops is useful for insomnia. But don't handle it excessively, as it can cause contact dermatitus.
Babies go to sleep at 8 (if you have a regular schedule), that's plenty of quiet time with the wife before you have to go to bed. Rent a movie and sit and snuggle on the couch.
I hate to shit on your parade, but not all children sleep the same amount of hours or those hours contiguously. My niece slept solidly, but not for long, she still doesn't sleep more than about 6 or 7 hours and is full of energy all the time (she is now 7). I get tired just watching her.
Remember, trusted computing has its place. Maybe not on the desktop, but I can see it useful to lockdown point-of-sale machines, kiosks and librarys. It would be a hell of a lot easier for some places than it is implementing Group Policies and permissions for a computer that should be used only for a specific task.
Where's the +1 lazy bastard mod point when you need it?
The truly paranoid would of course argue that Microsoft has made lockdown on their systems intentionally difficult, first to generate income from training for their systems, and secondly to usher in palladium.
... I wonder what the stats are for IT in general...
He has pointy hair.
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From what I've been reading so far, Walmart doesn't outsource because they've figured out that you can always find enough people domestically that will work for peanuts in a lousy environment. I've yet to hear anyone who has/does work there say anything positive about the experience.
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Aliens was such a hardware movie - I wanted everything in it. Any movie that features Sigorney Weaver as a gun toting rambo with PMS also must be good.
It's a rich ecosystem. Beer coasters that advertise beer to put in a glass on top of the coaster, glasses that smash into tiny non-cutting pieces, carpet that is patterned to hide vomit and crappy matchbooks are all part of the rich cycle of life.
No, they are not. In fact, it is almost impossible to find any form of educational institution where such things are taught.
What is taught, is rote learning. People are not taught to think, they are taught to obey. They are not taught to question, they are taught to accept what they are told.
If you would like a practical experiment in testing this theory, try this: ask any person, it doesn't matter who, to point out the flaws in democracy. Most people are so well trained to believe that democracy is the best system ever invented that they are likely to chase you down the streets with pitchforks screaming "terrorist" or "unamerican" rather than answer the question.
And that, is of course why beer evolved. Natural selection causes drunk men to get together with drunk women and make offspring that are predisposed to do the same thing as soon as they can get fake id. The beer has a symbotic relationship with the human species (specifically, the drunk humper sub-species) and is perfectly adapted to it's environmental niche.
Having read this comment after the results of both domestic (Australian) and American elections I'm inclined to agree.
People drink from the Ganges everyday (and I challenge anyone to find a more festering river of cess anywhere). If the only clean water you could get was recycled, would you really care where it came from?
I live in Australia, and we have water quality in our sewers that beats the drinking water in many parts of the world. All that water ends up either out at sea, or flooding paddocks after secondary treatment. We currently have water restrictions here. I think that we would have less of a problem if we stopped throwing away perfectly good water. It's just stupid not to recycle it.
Is that the perfect toy or what?
Coupled with the fact that you can make a reasonable rip-off with flour, water and food colouring for next to nothing. Bonus points for using cornflour and water to demonstrate dilatancy, ie. make your own silly putty.
Not in my bed it ain't. Remember, don't stop 'till it's raw.
And I'll sleep easier knowing that.
Great, we've already got stupid Americans thinking that kangaroos are jumping down every street here, now we're going to have to break the news to them that there aren't dragons flapping about either.
Call me when it's made from diamond.
Of course, if you are a real VIP, you don't need an RFID tag. You really think VIPs pay for their own drinks?
Yeah but you'd be able to pinpoint the sub underwater by the strength of the sound of bitching and backstabbing emanating from the hull.
Men just try to kill each other under stress, women let the venom for each other ripen in the cauldron of their black, black hearts - that poison never goes away.
This would be the total reverse of what happens presently. I wouldn't hold your breath.
I thought the iPod killer was the iPod mini?
Next thing, you'll be preaching personal responsibility and other common sense virtues. The lawyers will starve.
1) Dont buy X's seed
2) Buy compeditors seed (GM or not)
2) ???
3) no profit for X
4) Profit (for compeditor)
You left out the fact that farmers who don't buy the seed get either:
a) raped in court when the GM crop is 'accidently' found to be growing on their land.
b) get their crops contaminated by GM thereby closing off several markets to them and negating the advantage they had not growing GM.
c) Who do you think the competitors to Monsanto are? That's right, DuPont and Bayer Crop Sciences. Guess which competitor is pushing conventional crops? If you answered 'no one' you win the prize!
Where is the choice not to grow GM? GM has clearly been rejected by consumers, why should farmers be forced into growing something that is harder to sell, just to make greedy companies richer?
Monsanto, DuPont and Bayer Crop Science are like the unholy trinity. Their business practices are beyond stupid, they are evil.
"Let's make GM crops that can withstand twenty times the dose of our herbicide, and let's make those crops sensitive to the competitor's herbicide. And how 'bout we make the crops sterile so that the farmers have to buy from us year after year."
The problem I have with GM is that it is contra to evolution. If the world worked better with jellyfish mating with wheat, then that is what would happen.
People have spend too much time trying to get rid of supposed 'defects' which can turn out to be strengths in other circumstances. Mainstream agriculture is the perfect example of what *not* to do, GM will be orders of magnitude greater than that. Variety gives rise to strength, similiarity to weakness.
Put some hops in a little pillow and sleep on it for a solid night's sleep. Hops is useful for insomnia. But don't handle it excessively, as it can cause contact dermatitus.
New rule for next X-Prize: to be judged sucessful, entries must now carry 3 people and 200 pounds of TNT.
I hate to shit on your parade, but not all children sleep the same amount of hours or those hours contiguously. My niece slept solidly, but not for long, she still doesn't sleep more than about 6 or 7 hours and is full of energy all the time (she is now 7). I get tired just watching her.
Or more importantly in this situation: how do you prove that something that doesn't exist does exist?
Where's the +1 lazy bastard mod point when you need it?
The truly paranoid would of course argue that Microsoft has made lockdown on their systems intentionally difficult, first to generate income from training for their systems, and secondly to usher in palladium.
He has pointy hair.
From what I've been reading so far, Walmart doesn't outsource because they've figured out that you can always find enough people domestically that will work for peanuts in a lousy environment. I've yet to hear anyone who has/does work there say anything positive about the experience.